Background Women may have persistent risk of HIV acquisition during pregnancy and
postpartum. Estimating risk of HIV during these periods is important to inform optimal …

Blood collected and dried on a paper card–dried blood spot (DBS)–knows a growing
interest as a sampling method that can be performed outside care facilities by capillary …

Background Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the main mode of HIV transmission in
children under 15 years old. This problem is significant in the Sub-Saharan African …

Methods This study was conducted in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a region
with a very high HIV prevalence. 1 A consecutive sample of women offered PMTCT during …

Effective health care delivery to the majority of perinatally exposed infants worldwide,
including those enrolled in prevention of mother-to-child transmission programs, is …

Objective: To describe pregnancy outcomes among clade C HIV-infected and uninfected
women in South Africa. Design: A longitudinal cohort study. Methods: Pregnant women …

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To investigate transmission of human herpesvirus (HHV)-8, 2546 mother-child pairs were
recruited from rural clinics in South Africa and were tested for antibodies against lytic and …

1.1 BacKGROuNd The Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among
Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive (1) was launched in June 2011. With the …

Objective: To analyse the contribution of maternal survival and HIV status to child (under-5
years) mortality in a rural population cohort in South-west Uganda. Methods: Approximately …